Camera archive inaccessible

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I cannot reach the camera archive anymore. When I click the archive button on a camera instance the loading bar appear and stays for a few minutes until it says invalid data received. I have no problems with the login at the cp.mios.com website or UI.

Are more people experiencing this?

BTW: UI5 FW 1.5.255

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Update: after a day my login problem disappeared, but so did the images from the archive. :frowning:

All images that were stored before today have disappeared. I had an ‘archive for 30 days’ setting on the images. Is there maybe a max on the number of images that we can store? It is no problem this time since I am still testing, but I don’t think the system passed this test…

I think I would prefer to store movies (as opposed to snapshots) that were triggered by a z-wave sensor on a private ftp-server rather than snapshots that need to be loaded one at a time from a server where they might disappear. Is there a way to make this happen already?

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I will have someone check your archives. I don’t think they were deleted.

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OK, that would be nice. Right now I only see the pictures that were added after the ‘offline-day’. The 27th I had the vera upload an image every minute. The 28th it was broken. Since it came online again the upload is triggered by sensors and much less pictures are uploaded.

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Since this morning all images before today have disappeared.

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There’s a bug in the current firmware that causes the archives to not be visible. If you go to Users >> My Alerts and uncheck Unread Only do you see any archives?

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Ah, I see. I unchecked the the box but it doesn’t change anything for the archives yet. However, under the alerts I do find the pictures that I was looking for in the archives. (I had not looked there yet)

A related question: I disable the alarm using scene controllers that arm or disarm sensors. The armed state is however not available for triggering the camera. Now I’m uploading tons of useless pictures to the server. Is it possible to add a condition to the picture upload besides the sensor being triggered?

Thanks, Arjan

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You could create a scene that would archive a photo whenever you want. The request to archive an image is this:

luup.inet.wget("http://127.0.0.1:3480/data_request?id=archive_video&cam="..CAMERA_ID.."&format=1&res=medium")

So you can create a scene that runs whenever an armed motion sensor is tripped and add the code to archive the image in the Luup code box.

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Great!

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[quote=“mcvflorin, post:8, topic:170692”]You could create a scene that would archive a photo whenever you want. The request to archive an image is this:

luup.inet.wget("http://127.0.0.1:3480/data_request?id=archive_video&cam="..CAMERA_ID.."&format=1&res=medium")

So you can create a scene that runs whenever an armed motion sensor is tripped and add the code to archive the image in the Luup code box.[/quote]

What or where is the CAMERA_ID found?

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It is the device number which you can see on the first line in the Settings or Advanced panel.

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I am having the same problem with one of my camera’s. Since a few days it gives me the ‘invalid data received’ message when I try to view the archives. I’ve tried unchecking the ‘unread only’ box but this does not help.

What to do?

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Theo,

Did you submit a trouble ticket after enabling tech support so we can log in on the unit and take a look?

[quote=“Theo, post:12, topic:170692”]I am having the same problem with one of my camera’s. Since a few days it gives me the ‘invalid data received’ message when I try to view the archives. I’ve tried unchecking the ‘unread only’ box but this does not help.

What to do?[/quote]

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No I did not.

I thought maybe removing the camera and adding it again would solve the problem. This however does not work! When I click on the bin I get the question ‘do you want to remove this camera and the plugin that created it’. If I click on ‘Yes’ an error message is shown saying the plugin could to be found. And indeed the generic camera plugin I used to create this camera (back in UI4) is no longer available in UI5

I do not know if this has something to do with the pictures not being archived, but nevertheless I would like to have this solved. Next week I am upgrading my Vera2 to a Vera3 and I don’t want to copy any errors onto my new Vera3.

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Use this request to delete the camera:

http://<local_Vera_IP>:3480/data_request?id=device&action=delete&device=<device_ID>

…then you can add it again.

However, I don’t think this would fix the issue. Do you have the MAC address specified in the camera’s Settings tab?

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I manager to remove the camera with the link you provided. But now I can’t add it anymore. If I add it as an IP camera a device shows up that does not look like a camera device. I just has a blue circle. No picture or anything else.

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Please create the camera using the instructions here: http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Manually_create_IP_Camera_device
and let me know how this goes.

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It works. Thank you very much!!